Jan 30, 2012
Okay.I guess I’m just going to step right up here and show my age.Ready?Here goes.(Ahem!)I don’t like it when women talk to me or in front of me about breast feeding.There! I said it, I&rs...
Dec 30, 2011
Now, try not to hold this against me, but I am a retired English teacher. Being that, I happen to LOVE the English language, and I have a huge problem when I see it being misused or abused.Now, trust ...
Dec 21, 2011
Now look, I hate any kind of shopping just as much as the next guy does. Most times, I would rather walk barefoot over hot coals while eating cold worms out of a tin can than go into a store.However, ...
Dec 15, 2011
Okay.I just know that this post isgoing to get me in a whole lot of trouble.But that’s neverstopped me before…SO…I think that TheUniversal Powers That Be knew exactly what they wer...
Dec 9, 2011
I have never been “cool”.Never.I've always been a klutz, a dork, andany other monosyllabic or multi-syllabic noun that is synonymous with“doofus.”Words like “suave”...
Dec 5, 2011
Okay.So there we were, tooling down I-95 in southern Georgia en route to our place in Florida from our place in Connecticut. We left Connecticut three days earlier, and had gone about 1,000 miles. No....
Nov 16, 2011
Okay.It looked like melanoma, all right?I’m not a hypochondriac. (Well okay, I am.)But it seriously looked like melanoma!(If you are a hypochondriac, you may wish to stop reading this post right...
Oct 27, 2011
I will be the first to admit that I amnot a Constitutional scholar. Most of what I know about theConstitution I learned in grade school, high school, the PBSmini-series about John Adams, National Publ...
Oct 25, 2011
Is there anybody out there who thinks that The U.S. Congress isdoing a good job?I didn’t think so.Is there anybody out there who has the audacity to presume that heor she has a way of fixing Con...
Oct 24, 2011
Poor Barack Obama! There is JUSTNOTHING that he can do to make The Right happy!When he was elected, we were told byhis detractors that the man would be an ineffectiveCommander-in-Chief of our armed fo...
Oct 21, 2011
Okay.Something’s got to be done. It’s obvious that the concepts of “dumbing down” and “lowering the bar” are really beginning to take a noticeable toll on lif...
Oct 20, 2011
CitiGroup was just fined $285,000,000 by The Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud charges in a 2007 mortgage-lending scheme that they knew was going to go belly-up. According to corporate emai...
Oct 18, 2011
I don't know about you, but I am completely fed up with the people that I elect to Congress being bought by billionaires and Wall Street firms that line their pockets. And now, thanks to an extre...
Oct 13, 2011
Okay.So, look.Mary Ellen is gone off with a friendfor two days on a foliage-viewing excursion to Mount Washington inNew Hampshire.I have plans to go out to eat tonightwith friends.But last night I had...
Oct 5, 2011
Iremember a distant time. A turbulent time. A time of fear, a time ofbravery, a time of peace, a time of conscience.Itwas a time when wearing blue jeans was a sign of subversion, alongwith long hair a...